Quotes About Bustles

#1. In those jaws of swift destruction, like another Jonah (by which name they indeed called him), bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death. Abominable are the tumblers into which he pours his poison.

Herman Melville

#2. It is not immodest, father. It's the fashion to wear bustles. HOBSON. Then to hell with the fashion.

Harold Brighouse

#3. Weekdays, New York City's financial district bustles with activity. Its streets are rivers of rushing humanity, its air is thick with the sounds of traffic.

Jennifer Dunning

#4. A single bed with blood in it. Blood on the pillow and on the sheets and even on the enameled metal of the bed frame. Pink rags in a basin. Half-unrolled bandage on the floor. The nurse bustles over and grimaces at Werner. Outside of the kitchens, she is the only woman at the school.

Anthony Doerr

#5. Tea no more! Down with bustles!

Nancy Moser

#6. The current fashions are impractical for an active person. Skirts so tight one must toddle like an infant, bodices boned so firmly it is impossible to draw a deep breath ... . And bustles! Of all the idiotic contrivances foisted upon helpless womankind, the bustle is certainly the worst.

Elizabeth Peters

#7. Within are shabby shelves, ranged round with old decanters, bottles, flasks; and in those jaws of swift destruction, like another cursed Jonah (by which name indeed they called him), bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death.

Herman Melville

#8. Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

Sydney J. Harris

#9. I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am concerned, character is expressed through sexuality. Art is able to represent human existence stripped to its essence by showing us the naked human body.

Thomas Koerfer

#10. The next thing I knew I was laying face first on the ground,

Jessica Sorensen

#11. If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever.

Sam Amidon

#12. I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, 'Look who's talking!'

Cass Elliot

#13. Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.

Israel Horovitz

#14. There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.

Stephen Colbert

#15. I have seen all the colors in life but the most colorful is the color of life.

Amit Abraham